Archive for the ‘social networking’ Category

Facebook users: Crossing 700m, India ranks 5th

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Socialbakers reports Facebook userbase is crossing a whopping 700 million across the world. For the month of May, the top 6 countries which contributed to the growth of Facebook were,

Indians embrace social media, dumping email: Nielsen

Monday, May 30th, 2011

It is no secret that a lot of Indians are spending a lot of time on social media, mainly on Facebook. While most of the users for Twitter are from outside US, I don't think there is a huge mass of quality Twitter users in India.

Women spend more time than men on Facebook in India

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

I came across an interesting article today "Why Women Rule The Internet" (reading a bit late though). Recently I had written about non-US traffic was giving the valuations for Facebook & Twitter. For a long time I believe internet companies have recognized the power of the women user base on ...

Tiananmen Square, Tahrir Square – does India need its is own Square?

Friday, February 4th, 2011

I came across an interesting piece "Leadership lessons from Mubarak's failed regime", written by John R. Ryan, president of the nonprofit Center for Creative Leadership. Not sure how many Indian political parties will even want to read such articles.

Non-US users helping valuations of Facebook, Twitter soar

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Nearly every other day you get to read something about Facebook & Twitter. Here goes one more article! For a change non-US users are contributing big time to these two internet giants. Recently Facebook opened their office in Hyderabad [photos], will Twitter follow? Not anytime soon.